Help and advise
August 19th, 2016, 14:15
Hello friends,
I have been frantically googling through the web these last couple of days for any advise or solution to my problem. Without any luck i decided to join this forum (This is my first post/topic, hello.). I will try to relate as accurately as possible what happened.
This is what happened. A few days ago, i had to format my HDD to reinstall a copy of windows 7. I had to convert my HDD from GPT to MBR because i was using a UEFI motherboard. I couldn't activate my pirated copy of Win7ultimate therefore i had to install Win7pro instead (because of my countries poor exchange rate, genuine copy of windows is quite pricey). This is where everything went hazy from the panic attack i had. I dont remember exactly what i did, but in my first attempt i was unsuccessful in my installation. I managed to install windows on my second try. I then realized that my second 1TB HDD which i used for storage appeared as system reserved at 500Mb. This is the part i panicked.
Running disk management i discover that my 1TB HDD had 930Gb of unallocated space. The data in the HDD are mostly games which i can live without, however i do have important documents inside.
So that was what happened. My questions are:
1. Am i screwed?
2. What should i do?
3. Will typical data recovery software help (i.e. EaseUs data recovery wizard)?
4. Or will partition recovery software help (i.e. testdisk)?
Help
Regards
I have been frantically googling through the web these last couple of days for any advise or solution to my problem. Without any luck i decided to join this forum (This is my first post/topic, hello.). I will try to relate as accurately as possible what happened.
This is what happened. A few days ago, i had to format my HDD to reinstall a copy of windows 7. I had to convert my HDD from GPT to MBR because i was using a UEFI motherboard. I couldn't activate my pirated copy of Win7ultimate therefore i had to install Win7pro instead (because of my countries poor exchange rate, genuine copy of windows is quite pricey). This is where everything went hazy from the panic attack i had. I dont remember exactly what i did, but in my first attempt i was unsuccessful in my installation. I managed to install windows on my second try. I then realized that my second 1TB HDD which i used for storage appeared as system reserved at 500Mb. This is the part i panicked.
Running disk management i discover that my 1TB HDD had 930Gb of unallocated space. The data in the HDD are mostly games which i can live without, however i do have important documents inside. So that was what happened. My questions are:
1. Am i screwed?
2. What should i do?
3. Will typical data recovery software help (i.e. EaseUs data recovery wizard)?
4. Or will partition recovery software help (i.e. testdisk)?
Help
Regards
Re: Help and advise
August 19th, 2016, 19:34
Can you show us DMDE's Partitions window? BTW, DMDE has a free version, so you don't need to be concerned with piracy.
https://dmde.com/
https://dmde.com/
Re: Help and advise
August 20th, 2016, 2:12
fzabkar wrote:Can you show us DMDE's Partitions window? BTW, DMDE has a free version, so you don't need to be concerned with piracy.
https://dmde.com/
Partition window?
You mean these?
Re: Help and advise
August 20th, 2016, 7:32
fzabkar wrote:Can you show us DMDE's Partitions window? BTW, DMDE has a free version, so you don't need to be concerned with piracy.
https://dmde.com/
Hello friend,
So i decided to go ahead and scan the drive with DMDE. I found exactly what i lost. Yay!
What should be my next step? Do i recover all the files or do i reconstruct the file system? I'm guessing i have to source a full edition instead of using this free edition?
Regards
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